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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Islam Comes to Moore, Oklahoma

Alton Nolen, alleged beheader.

By Alan
Caruba

It took
the gruesome videos of two American journalists being beheaded by a masked
Islamic State (ISIS) butcher, followed since then by more victims, to finally
wake Americans to the threat that they face from Islam, but the beheading of a
Moore, Oklahoma victim by a man who had been trying to get his co-workers to
convert to Islam that brought the threat to the homeland.

The memory
of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon have long
since begun to fade, but Islam has returned to page one with a display of the
violence that is the heart and soul of a cult based on the life and teachings
of Muhammad.

Don’t call
it a religion. And surely do not call it the “religion of peace.” There was
nothing peaceful about Islam from its earliest days when the citizens of Mecca
came to the conclusion that Muhammad and his followers were a threat to them.
That was 1,400 years ago.

If it were
in my power, I would require every American to read “It’s All About Muhammad: A Biography of the World’s Most Notorious
Prophet” by F.W. Burleigh ($`6.95, Zenga Books).

Instead, I
will only highly recommend it as the best way to understand the man who
literally invented a so-called religion based on his own pathologies and then,
through terror, ensured it spread to the entirety of Arabia in his lifetime.

As the
author notes in its introduction, the biography is based almost entirely on the
original literature of Islam as well as early biographies, histories, and
collections of traditions. Twenty thousand pages of material were given
line-by-line scrutiny “because what is written about him in the original
literature is disturbing.”

“More than
two-thirds of the canonical biographical materials have to do with the violence
he used to spread his religion.”It was
a short step from Muhammad, the self-proclaimed prophet who later called
himself the messenger of Allah, to Alton Nolen, the Muslim convert who is
alleged to have beheaded a former co-worker.

What is little
known about Muhammad is that he suffered from epileptic fits throughout his
life and had had a troubled youth that would have unhinged anyone. A fortunate
marriage at age 24 took him out of a life of low status and poverty. His wife
was twenty years his senior, a woman of wealth. Though a grave concern in an
era when the fits were seen as demon possession, Muhammad began to interpret
them as the voices of Allah and his angels, particularly Gabriel.

“It was
during this period of emotional and intellectual upheaval that his overcharged
brain, wracked by doubts and suffering, came to his rescue in the form of a
series of spectacular hallucinatory experiences that convinced him he was
unique and had been singled out by God for a special purpose. This took place
in A.D. 610 when Muhammad was forty years old.”

“His
belief became unshakable and later became content of much of the Koran and his
later ruthless behavior as pillage, rape, the enslavement of men, women, and
children, and other atrocities he perpetrated—make such a belief beyond
ludicrous.”

“It was
sufficient for Muhammad to think something for it to become the truth. He was
convinced that whatever came into his head came from Allah.” For ages insane
asylums have been filled with such people.

As
Muhammad drew followers to himself and to the exacting rituals he created for
Islam, he enriched himself and them with acts of banditry, attacking caravans
and then attacking tribes, particularly Jewish ones, to build a mountain of
stolen wealth. Burleigh notes that the Koran has a chapter “entitled ‘The
Spoils of War’” that “transformed Muhammad’s religion into an organized-crime
enterprise for its approval of plunder.”He told his believers “Enjoy what you take in war” for it is “lawful and
good.”

Again, it
is a short step from his era to the present one in which believers have united
to create the Islamic State (ISIS) by war and to begin to steal the wealth of
Syria from the sale of its oil on the black market. Imposing themselves on a
large area of Iraq, ISIS is simply an extension of al Qaeda and al Qaeda is an
expression of Muhammad’s demand that Islam become the sole religion of the
world, exacting a subjugation tax from any who would not convert.

Burleigh
concludes his book saying “Muhammad was a diseased genius, an epileptic
psychopath with a clever tongue who believed God talked to him, a toxic mixture
that transformed him over time into a mass murderer and a despot pushing a
delusional religion.”

It should
surprise no one that he “divided the world into lands conquered and lands yet
to be conquered, into lands that submitted to his delusions about himself and
lands yet to submit to his delusions.”

Following
World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Islam was in decline, but
the discovery of oil in the Middle East provided the funding to spread its
message. That message, dependent on violence and terror has created such a
problem in the Middle East that Islamic nations there are joining in the effort
to defeat ISIS.

Burleigh
asks “Who will defend you against the encroachment of what Muhammad created and
the very real threat that it could eventually destroy all that you cherish?” He
does not recommend the man who said, “The future must not belong to those who
slander the Prophet of Islam.”That man
is President Barack Hussein Obama.

And now
you know why the murders committed by Major Nidal Hasan in 2009, killing his
fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, or the murder in Oklahoma were both deemed
“workplace violence” by law enforcement authorities reluctant to challenge the
White House to the reality that both were inspired and approved by Islam.

Editor's Note: This book will not be available for purchase until October 15. Check Amazon.com at that time.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.